Alfred Gigon

Alfred Gigon (born September 24, 1883 in Delsberg , † July 25, 1975 in Basel ) was a Swiss doctor .

Life

Gigon studied biochemistry and physiology at the universities of Berlin and Stockholm . He received his doctorate in 1906 from the University of Basel with a thesis on a "metabolic experiment in a case of pancreatic diabetes ". From 1909 he worked at the Basel Medical University Polyclinic. He completed his habilitation in 1911 and became an associate professor in 1921 and a full professor of internal medicine in 1933 . From 1932 to 1954 he was the chief physician of the Medical University Polyclinic. From 1925 to around 1963 he was editor-in-chief of the Swiss Medical Weekly .

Gigon was also the "promoter of the Swiss Society for Internal Medicine ", in 1943 co-founder of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and in 1945 co-founder of the Swiss Tropical Institute .

Gigon was also a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and an honorary doctorate from the Sorbonne .

Web links

• Huldrych MF Koelbing : Gigon, Alfred. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gigon, Alfred: Metabolism experiment on a case of pancreatic diabetes . 1907, p. 30 ( Google Books ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Niklaus Gyr , Andreas Zeller , Manuel Battegay : The Medical University Policlinic Basel on the threshold of the 21st century: retro and perspectives.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Practice . Vol. 90 (2001), p. 1390.  
3. ↑ swisstph.ch
4. ↑ History of the day . In: Clinical weekly . tape 23 , no. 1 , 1944, pp. 44 , doi : 10.1007 / BF02342405 .